Reading and Writing Cyrillic

Notice! If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later versions installation of the Cyrillic alphabet support in this case is made automatically. To make sure such support is secured you will only be required to confirm that installation of the corresponding component is necessary.

Multilanguage support

For work with our course your computer has to be able to show Russian and to type in Russian (Cyrillic). If you have Windows 95 OSR, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 you may do this without any additional installations. You can find instructions about this below or on the Microsoft Internet site. Also you may download ScreenCam files (550 Kb) to see multilanguage support installation as videoclips on your computer. CAUTION! Make sure that you are downloading this SC_CLIPS.EXE in an empty folder. Double-click this file. This will cause it to de-compress itself. After that you can run KBD_INST.EXE or ML_INST.EXE.

This brief guide explains the multilingual features of Windows 95 and Windows NT 4. It explains how you can add multilanguage support to your computer, and how to write content and view documents using various language scripts.

Adding pan-European multilanguage support to Windows 95

Adding multilanguage support to your computer lets you view documents written in any common European script. If you want to edit these documents or write your own from scratch you also need to add keyboard support for your required languages. Follow these instructions to add multilanguage support to your computer.

1.From the Control Panel select Add/Remove Programs Windows Setup tab.
2.Click Multilanguage Support (if it isn't exist please download multilanguage packs (1.3 Mb) and follow the instructions below.
CAUTION! Make sure that you are downloading this LANG.EXE in an empty folder.), and then click Details.
3.Make sure a check mark appears beside the language or languages you want to use.
4.Click OK, and then click OK again.
5.The changes will take effect after your computer restarts.

If your copy of Windows 95 was supplied on floppy disks you can still access this feature by downloading and installing Multilanguage Support [lang.exe: 1,338KB, self-extracting archive, published: 1 February 1996]. You should now be able to view documents created in scripts such as Cyrillic and Greek. If you want to write using these scripts you also need to follow these instructions

1.From the Control Panel select Keyboard.
2.Select Language, and then click Add.
3.Select the languages you need.
4.Make sure Enable Indicator On Taskbar is checked.

Using pan-European support

When multilanguage support and keyboard support have been added to your Windows 95 machine the language indicator will be displayed on the task bar. Writing multilanguage documents is easy, just click on the indicator to change language. If you are writing a document in Word, and wish to include a passage in Russian, click the language indicator on the taskbar, and then choose Russian.

Viewing Web pages

In addition to providing localized versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has made available language packs that let you view pages using international character sets (including traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Cyrillic and Greek). These packs can be downloaded from the Internet Explorer 3 multilanguage page and the Internet Explorer 4 add-ons page.

How to install Windows 95 Multilanguage Support

1.Double-click the file LANG.EXE. This will cause it to de-compress itself.
CAUTION! Make sure that you are running this .EXE file in an empty folder or on a blank formatted diskette! DO NOT run this .EXE file in your \WINDOWS or \WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder!
2.Open the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel, select the "Windows Setup" tab, and click the "Have Disk..." button.
3.In the "Install from Disk" dialog, enter the location where LANG.EXE was run, and click OK.
4.Choose the options you want to install, and click the "Install" button.
5.Once you have installed this utility, you can delete the files from the folder that LANG.EXE was run.